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==Service==
 
==Service==
 
As soon as she was available, {{UK-Caroline}} was made temporary leader of the {{UK-DF|4}}, replacing {{UK-Swift}} in that role as that ship went into a refit.{{GFConferences1914|pp218-219}}
 
As soon as she was available, {{UK-Caroline}} was made temporary leader of the {{UK-DF|4}}, replacing {{UK-Swift}} in that role as that ship went into a refit.{{GFConferences1914|pp218-219}}
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She recommissioned at Pembroke on 26 June, 1919.{{NLJan21|p. 742}}
  
 
==Alterations==
 
==Alterations==

Revision as of 11:37, 1 September 2013

H.M.S. Caroline (1914)
Pendant Number: 87 (1914)
30 (Jan 1918)
44 (Apr 1918)[1]
Builder: Cammell Laird[2]
Laid down: 28 Jan, 1914[3]
Launched: 29 Sep, 1914[4]
Commissioned: Dec, 1914[5]
Preserved:


Service

As soon as she was available, Caroline was made temporary leader of the Fourth Destroyer Flotilla, replacing Swift in that role as that ship went into a refit.[6]

She recommissioned at Pembroke on 26 June, 1919.[7]

Alterations

In 1915 or 1916, she trialed a Wise Pressure Telegraphy System Type B for torpedo control.[8]

Caroline was fitted with a director in March, 1918. This alteration required her pole mast to be replaced with a tripod mast for greater rigidity.[9]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 47.
  2. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 47.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 56.
  4. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 47.
  5. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 56.
  6. Grand Fleet Conferences, 1914. pp218-219.
  7. The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 742.
  8. Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1916. p. 30.
  9. The Technical History and Index, Vol. 3, Part 23. pp. 11-12.
  10. Crooke Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/44. f. 36.
  11. The Navy List (December, 1918). p. 753.
  12. The Monthly Navy List (May, 1919). p. 753.
  13. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.

Bibliography

  • Dittmar, F.J.; Colledge, J.J. (1972). British Warships 1914–1919. London: Ian Allan.
  • Gray, Randal (editor) (1985). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
  • Admiralty, Gunnery Branch (1918). Handbook of Captain F. C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, 1918. C.B. 1456. Copy No. 10 at Admiralty Library, Portsmouth, United Kingdom.
  • Admiralty, Technical History Section (1919). The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in H.M. Ships. Vol. 3, Part 23. C.B. 1515 (23) now O.U. 6171/14. At The National Archives. ADM 275/19.


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